Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 10, 1918, Page 1

“VOL. LIX—NO. 2905 - INPOSING NAVAL ESCORT O MEET PRESIDENT'S SHI Fleet of Nine Battleships and the Presidential Ship at Sea and Escort It to Brest—The George Washington, Flying the Presidential Flag as Supreme Commander of Enter the Port of Brest Through a Channel Marked by Vessels of Vice Admiral Wilson's Command. | Washington, Dec, 9.—Admiral Sims, \commander-in-chiet of all American |maval forces in Europe, wiil persona {1y command the flest of nine battle- |shipg and thirty destrovers which is ta President Wilsa's ship - at ‘sea escort it to Drest. Secretary I todzy that Admi- ral will be the Wyo- Upon the joining of these ehips with the Pennsylvania and the ac- Companying destroyers, the entire na. val escort to Brest :;a an v;lhl:a ne; companying the president will be 1n- der lh:flr:mm:n’; ot Admiral Mayo. commander-in-chie! of the Atlantic fleet, whose flag flles from the Penn- sylvania. £ Vice Admiral Henry T Wilson: will be in charge of the harbor and port arrangements for the reception of the president. The George Washington, fiying the president's flag as supreine commander of the Unit2d States navy, will. enter port through a channel parked by vessels of Vice Admiral Wilson's command. MR. WILSON PROBABLY WILL NOY SIT AT PEACE TABLE Roard U, §, S George Washing- lul?.‘l’k'(x 9—(By Wireless to The A, P.) President Wilson probably wii POPULATION 29,919 EIGHT PAGES—64 COI Thirty Destroyers is to Meet the United States Navy, Will not alt at the peace table but will be represented, there by delegates while remaining in close contact with the heads of the other nations and_ pre- pared to decide questions referréd to him, Premier Clemenceay, it is belleved, will be president of the peace confer- ence, This is considered fitting be- cause the conference will be held in France. President Wilson's dicposition is in favor of entirely public proceedings, such as carried on in the senate cham- ber at Washington, with the press representatives given every facility to feport cerfain business. Naturally there will be need of secrecy, as there is in the foreign relations committee, but the president's idea is that the procedure cotiid be much the same as at Washington, a_committee consider- inz the confidential and delicate fea- tures ot various kuestions, and then reporting back to the peace, congress for action. Late yesterday President Wilson un- cxpectedly attended a songfest in the enlisted men's hall where, afterwards, be ehook hands with the cfficers anu sallors. The president ,was given three cheers and a “tigér.” The weather is warm and tne sex is calm, NATIONAL INVESTMENT BANKERS IN SESSION Atlancts Cily, Dec. 9.—T'rivate con- trol of raflroads with jndicious res- ulations was advocated in the report of tha rallzcad securities committee of the Natlonal Investment Bankers' Association in session hero {oday. The pre-war war of railroal resulation. the raport declared, was a failure and the roads should be returned to their pre-war withont providing re- jease_from the “burdemsome condi- tions™ undsr which they have here- tofore operated. » Continuing, the report raid! “Any plan of future gorernment con- trol should eliminate the wconflict of control between state und federal bodies. “The Sherman ‘anti-trust law and state anti-trust laws In their. appli- cation to transportation should be re- pealed in the interests of efMciency and economy, because such laws are unnecessary ~under proper govern- mpental regulation. % plan of government control increnses rating _expenses an “Scime litv for adequate earnings and sustained credit. “We may further add that the al- temmative of government ownership which is being proposed by some as the best solution for the difficulties presented, in the opinion of the com- mittee, does mot offer the measure of réNef demanded. “Aceording to reliable euthorities the records of government ownership the world over show decrensed effi- clency, increased expense, lessened initiative, political interference and economic wastes. “Furthermore, we find nothing in the experience of our country in the field of public ownership which encourag- s the hope that we can profitably ex- tend this sphere.” FOR FEDERAL CONTROL OF HIGHWAY TRANSPOATATION Chteago, Dec. 9.—Highway transpor- tation should be placed un.ler the di- rection of n. fedarel govirnment com- misefon, according to Lieutenant Col- onel W. D. Uhier, president of the American Association of Stute High- way Officials which began its annual convention here today h tatives present from nea in_the union. Te sajd the growing volme and importance of interstats trensporta- tich of freight by motor trucks over tlie highways rendersd sovernment way officials during the present r constouction period wera outlined by A. D -Williams, acting secretary of the assoeiation. He said higiway con- struction had decreased *7 15.50 per ot .in nearly every section of the wolintry since the beginaing of the war, due to the shortaze and aigh cost of labor and material. He recommended bLetter workifg conditions ‘or convict road buflders. INTERNATIONAL SANCTION FOR THE MONROE DOCTRINE New York, Dec. 9.—Formal recog- nition at the peace confersnce of the Monroe Doctrine, “tn obtain for force of international sancaon, urged by Former United Stares Sena tor George Sutheriand of Utah, for eight years a member of the senate committee on foreign relations, in a lecture here today at Co'umbia uni- versity. Asserting that the doctrinn rested only’ “upon our own assercion, with- out even the *aciz approval of Buwpe, Tngland excepted,” Mr. Sutherland declared that “driving autocruey from its Buropean strongholds does not move the menace to our peace result- ing from the possih's sublugation of any American republic by an aggres- sive mation.” DISPOSITION OF ESTATE OF JOSEPH RAPHAEL DE LAMAR New York, Dec. 9. —Harvard, Colush- ‘bia and Johns Hopkins universities are s Jegatees under the will of ?‘%l De Lamar, millionaire inine owner, offered for probate here . A trust fund of $10,000,000 is for his daughter, Alice An- Lamar, and $500,000 is left York Association ‘for Im- ANTI-AIRCRAFT TROOPS TO RETURN FOM OVESEAS Washington, Dec. 9.—General March, chief of staff, announced todey that these additfonal organizations have = v been # by General Pershing for kot s P 1"“1."‘;";,“.:1,_ S S o R atterics lat the hotel offered to i STATE DEP'T SENDS NOTES TO BERLIN AND VIENNA Wasingtoy, Dee. 9.—Notes were ent to Berlin #nd Vienna by the state department {oday advising the Ger- man and Austrian govermets that the Ulted States desires to recelve no turther communications fiom ~ them which should properly addrassed to all the o™= natlons. A nota of similar purnort previous- 1y had been dispatched to tae German rovernment as the resuit of requests that the armistice terms he modified. Jt yas explamed at the department inat the /stes sent today thicough the Swies and Swedish legations resulted particularly fiom a communication from the National Comncil of Lem- berg regarding boundary lints and al- s0 by notes from Austria and Ger- many which bbre no evidence of hav- ing been similarly commun:chted to the governments associated with the United State. The note from the National Coun- cil of Lembers; indicated that the state of Lembeng cesires to astabl'sh itself as an independent corcmunity and said the activitiex of the TTkraninina and Poles were regarded by the 1eople of Lemberg with suspicton. ACCUSED OF EXCLAIMING: “WILSON! | HOPE HC DROWNS!"” New York, Dec. 8, — Roymond L. Ramsdell, vico president of the Unit ed Cigar Stores Companv, was ar- raigned in a migistrate’s court here today. accused of having +s2iaimed re- garding Presidert Wils Wilsan! L hope he drowns!” A complaint _charging conduct was made asains: dell and the case was adjourned until Friday. William H. Stockdale, a giest at the Hotel Maric Antolnette, (Mtained the ummons which was served by a deputy of Willam H. Bdwards, in- ternal revenue collector.( Mr. Ramsdell is alleged to have mada the remark when, on December 2, the room clerk luce hm waitor, who is disorderly to the hotel's head superintending the tablo which | Preside Wilson eats on his voyage to | France on. the transport George Washingto The adjournment was taken at the request of the defendant's attorney,| Max D. Steuer. Mr. Ramsde!| refu!cd’ to discuss the complaint against him. NoW ENGLAND REPORTS HEAVY SHORTAGES OF LABOR Washington, Dec. 9. — Generally £ood health in most of the large in- dustrial centers of the country, with demand for labor equalling or ex- ceeding the supply, are reported in telegrams to the United States em- ployment service from community Ja- bor boards In 34 states. In Pennsylvania, biz centers like Philadelphia, Pittshurgh and Harris- burg report heavy shortages of labor with the supply nowhere equalling the demand. Scranton, in the center of the anthracite mining districts, re- vorts a shortage of 5,000, Reports from New England show heayy shortazes of labor almost ev- at erywhere, but with conditions gen- erally_good. In New Jersey there {s a heavy short. i se dn Trenton, Jersey City and Elizabeth, while at Newark, Pater- son and New Brunswick the supply sbout equals the demand. TRIAL OF 47 ALLEGED “INDUSTRIAL WORKERS” Sacremento, Calif., Dec. 9.—The trail of forty-seven _alleged Industrial Workers of the World, charged with a cowspiracy o obstruct the war activ- ities of the federal government, was begun in the United Srates district court here today, Judge Yrank H. Rudkin, of the United Statcs district court for eastern Washington, presid- ed. & GERMANY RECOGNIZES REPUBLIC OF ESTHONIA Amsterdam, Dec. 9.—The German government, according to the Berlin correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, has recognized the republic of Estho- nia, one of the Russian Baltic prov- D ocotang ol thy According to this correspondent the Bermans have evacuated, Narva, .a Russian town 81 miles eouthwest of Petrograll, and also are leaving the Russian ports of Reval and Riga. FIVE TRAWLERS TOWING A GERMAN SUBMARINE Paris, Dec. 9.—Five trawlers are ex- pected ‘to arrive at Cherbourg tomor- row, each towing a German subma- ‘Bridgeport; Cabled Paragraphs . Quiet in Berlin. Copenhagen, Dec. 9.—According to reports from Berlin filed in the German capital .at two o’clock th's 'morning the demonsirations there yesterday were without untoward incident, 3,239 NAMES IN TWO ARMY CASUALTY LISTS ‘Washington, Dec. 9—The following casualties are reported by the Com- manding General of the American Expeditionary Forces: Killed in action 258; died of acci- dent and other causes 6; died of alr- plane accident 1; died of disease 137; wounded severely 28; wounded - (de-! gree undetermined) - 854; wounded slightly 214; missing in-action 274; to- tal 1,581, . Connecticut, TRhode Island and southern Massachusetts men: Killed in Action. Sergeants—Dennis McAuliffe, Prov idence, R. L; Edward F. Ryan, Willi- mai Died of Accident and Other Causes. Private James M. Coburn, Holyoke, Mass. Wounded Severely. Corporals—Michael 0'Dea, bury; Valmore J. Pllon, Bristol; Arthur Al Tinker, Stamford. Privates—Wilfrid Christian, Woon- socket, R. L; Patrick Galvin Turnex, Newport, R. L; Adam Okula, New Britain; ‘Arthur R. Adams, Wethe: fleld; Edward J. Donovan, mantic. Wounded (Degree Undetermined). Sergeants—Horace Burkner, New Haven; Lionel P. Spencer, Holyoke, Corporal Francis M. Murray, Wor- cester, Mass. Privates—Stanley Andronek, Britain; Idwrence Blakeley, Hart- ford; William Carangelo, Waterville; Hasrov Hagoplan, Providence, R. I Michael Kabylanski, Waterbury; An- fello Testa, Bridgeport; Joseph . Bois, Woonsocket, R. L; Dollard St. Pierre, Central Falls, R. L Wounded 8lightly. Privates—John J. McCrudden, Prov- idence, R. L; Samuel Patenaude, Man- ville, R. I; Blassus Roman, New Brit- ain; Frank A. Farnham, Providence, R I; Louis A. Saucier, Waterb Albert Carvel, Stamford; Charles Eidridge, Newport, R. L Missing in Action. Privates—Joseph Kuba, Bridgepor! Guiseppe Mirando, New Haven; Wi lam John Moran, Danbury; Radocchio, Eridgeport; Walter F. Clair, Worcester, Mass.; William J. Redican, Meriden; Theodore Bovas, Newport, R. L; Charles L. Edwards, Newtown; Walter Kenyon, Rockfalls, George Aston, Hartford; John A. Beckwith, Waterbury. New B Le MONDAY AFTERNOON'S LIST. Killed in action 236; wounded sev- erely 881; wounded = slighty 165; missing in action 876; total 1708. Connecticut men: Killed in Action. Privates—William Clarence Halll- gan, New Haven; Franlesco Lopario, Waterbury; Antony Zoldik, Jewett City. Wounded Severely. “Cotor Sergeant Jolii 7. CHftiH New Britain, Sergeants—Arthur M. Wiiliams, New Britain; Francis J. Hines, Winsted; Antonio Esposito, New Have McDonald, Wallingford; William Snyder, Torrington; John ). Hartford. Corporal Haven. Mechanics—Michael Gluse, Ansonia; George H. Boothroyd, Mliddletown Alfred C. Connolley, Danbury; Ed- ward Lockwood, East Hartford; John Cropolichro, Shelton. Privates—Stanley Kane en; Stephen Orcheski, Union City John Waddell, South Manchester; Adam Karpen, New Britan L. Johnson, Hartford; Irving L. Mitck ell, New Haven; William §¥. O'Lear: George - H. Peckham Walter Majyik, Bridge- port; Stif. Brygidyr, New Haven; Martin _R. Lombardo, Bridgeport; Ernest Bugbee, Montville. Missing in Action. Privates — Maurice Collins. Tligh- wood; Arthur Miller, Ansoni: Vill- jam J. Plisko, Bridgeport; L. Ratcliffe, Waterbury fuk, Ansonia; Edward Henry yon, Hartford. Fagan Vincent Simone, New ew Hav- Westville; $250,000,000 NAVAL DEFICIT FOR CURRENT FISCAL YEAR ‘Washington, Dec. 9 —Congress will be asked shortly to appropriate about $260,000,000 to meet a naval defieit for the ‘current - fiseal year. Secretary Daniels, who was before the house naval committee today to say wheth- er any part of this year's appropria- tions, totalling. $3,884,000,000, cculd be returned to the treasury, explained that the deflclency will be asked on a number of items for which expendi- tures will exceed the appropriations. These include maintenance, which has increased as the result of an ad- vance in cost of materials and in pay to officers and men, which will be greater for the year because of the in- crease in personnel. On other items, Secretary Daniels explained there will be savings but these savings cannot be applied to de- ficlencies for other account AUSTRIA TRIED TO WITHDRAW FRCM THE WAR IN 1917 Vienna, Dec. 9 (By the A, P, Count Czernin, former Austro-Hun- garian foreign minister, today told the correspondent that Austria in 1917 made desperate efforts to withdraw from the war, even to the extent of ofering Germany the empire’s richest coal and. oil province, Galicia, if Ger- many would surrender Alsace-Lor- raine. Count Czernin added that Austria’s efforts always were defeated by either eneral Von Ludendorff, the German chief quartermaster general, or other ‘high German officials, who even went to the extent of asserting that they were willing to declare war on Austria if Austria made a separate peace., TO EXHUME THE BODY OF MRS. NELLIE WILKINS Jersey City, N. I., Dec, 9.—The body of Mrs. Neille Wiikins, sister-in-law of Mrs. Bessle Wilkins Skeels, who is awaiting itral at Andover, Mass, on a charge of having murdered Miss Florencé N. Gay of that place, will be exhumed to determine thé cause of her death, Prosecutor Plerre P. Garven of Hudson county announced tonight. Both Mrs. Wilkins and her husbang, Albert, who died in Bayonne last July within two days of each other, were rine, This is the first group of U-boags o be handed over to France. It includes one of the most recent vessels of the submersible cruiser type. The Japanese armored cruiser~Njs- shin, with two._torpedo boats, has ar- rived at Constantinople. 4 attended by Mrs. Skecls. After tho body of Mr. Wilkins was exhumed and an autopsy showed that ho had been poisoned} the Hufson county garna jury last week returned an fndictment charging Mrs, Skeels with murdering Water- | Frank | H. | James | McAdoo, in Letter to 'Con- gress, Seeks Extension to Washington, Dec. 9.—Congress was | asked by Secretary McAdoo in a let. ter made public today to authorize the continuation of loans to the allies for cne year after the termination of tre war to finance the purchase of food- stuffs and reconstruction materials in this country. No additional appro- priation for loans to allies was souht, but it was sugzested that the pro- pesed peace time provision apply to the $1,500,000,000 of the ' $10,000,000, 000 appropriated for .allied loans, vhich Secretary McAdoo estimated will remain unexpended when peace is declared. TUnder existing luw, the ‘nited States may lend to the allies only for war purposes and during the war. In line with this policy, the secre- tary also sought to have nevs legis- lation provide that credits extended after December 15 be for “purpbses srowing out of the war” ‘to make their use more fiexible. The present law Yequires that the |sccurities of foreign overnments which the secretary of :the treasury is to take in-exchange for loans must be of the same maturity as that ef the preceding Liberty loan from which One Year After the War. | Seeks njnction To' Restibin, Posteanslis’ G eral Burleson From Fur- thex Control of Ite Cablde. New York, Dec, 9.—The Commercial | Pacific Cable company, allied with the Commercial Cable company, asked for an injunction in the federal court to- day restraining Postmaster General Burleson from _further control of its 10,000 miles of cable between San Francisco to' China, Japan and the Philippine Islands. Violation of international law{ by Burleson is charged in the complaint, Which asserts that the United States had not obtained consent to the seizura ! from the nat'ons upon whose territory the cables land. It is further alleged | such consent would be unconstitution - al without a formal treaty approved by the senate, This contention is upheld, the com- pany declares, by information from its London office that a department of the British government.has instructed’ the Commercial Cable company represent- atives there to make no changes at the direction of the. American postmaster general without first submitting them to_that department for approval. The bill of complaint filed for the Commercial Pacific by Charles E. Hughes ind William W. Cook, as coun- sei, declares: the funds came. Mr. McAdoo would hange this to give the treasury lim- ited authority to determine the ma- turities, in view of the prospective issuance of short term bonds for the fifth loan. Treasury officials have ascertained that . foreign governments are pre- pared to buy great quantities of food, iron and steel, machinery, cotton and other materials from the United States during the next few yea to aid in. thelr physical reconstruction programmes. Since the United States has absorbed much of the world's sup- ply of gold in the last few years, the nations have not the resources, either In cash or ready credit, to pay for thelr purchases -without these loans, offcials maintain. Mr. McAdoo's request was discussed on the floor of the house by Repre- sontative Moore of Penn: publican member of the ways and jmeans committee, who said scems to be nothing any other nation {may ask that the United States will Inot give.” “Some scem to think that no limit of what we mav Mr. Moore, “but there wi ccunting by all of us, from the pres- ident down, to the American peopl Mr. Moore said propaganda s he. ing spread through the country -te teach us that the Panama canal should be given over to the nations of the world as a peace ofermg, par- ticularly to those who are 'stronger on the high seas than we.” Speeches of Chairman Hurley of the shipping hoard were said by Mr. Moore to give the imprassion that “there | That the United States government, cording to the company's information and belief. That this copstitutes a violation of the principles of international law providing that one nation shall not en- ¢roach on or seize any part of the ter- ritory of another nation. That all nations “are very properly jealous” of landings on their soil of cables controlled or owned by other nations and forbid it because it is lia- ble to lead to international complica- tions. : That, even if consent of the other and landings upon conditions. satis- factory to them was secured, “such terms and . conditions they would te the occupation by the Eovernment of foreign territory, would constitute the substance of a treaty which, under the constitution of the ! United States, can he made only by and with the consent of the senate, which advice and consent has not been obtained, and that this is a violation of the constitution of ~the United States.” That the cables are private property and have “been taken by the defendant not for public use;” and that no pro- vision has been made for any judicial inquiry as to the necessity for such seizure. That the seizure is “arbitrary, in violation of the United States consti tution guarantee'nz due process law." in selzing the cables, has not secured | the consent of the foreign nations on| whose territories the cabies land, ac-| nations to the seizure of the cables| pertaining as| Pasteur ‘Institute ready to make calibre. tares from 6 to tour ‘zones, Three million purposes. b Anaconda Cop struction orders. was speeded up Reports that by Jan. L the Emergency less. New York Fe nounces that m of wheat area Arrangements more than recei | Steamer Bent ! san Francisco t gale. Fresh and from Chicago amounted to 68, ta | from St. Louis about New rules co-operage The Rockville we are not buflding ships for our own use but so that other, natfons who are our ¢ompetitors may profit.” Represetitative ‘Moore ~referred..{o President Wilson's trip- abroad .and said manv peovle see objectionab'e foatures in it. He added that the president’s peace principle calling for remowal of economic -barriers, means free trade, which he ‘criticized as up- se, declaring “the peovle will turn the republicans out of ‘office if fthe: submit to a removal of all tariff bare riers.” ~ ENORMOCUS PROGRAM WAS MADE FOR AERIAL WARFARE million capacity demolition bombs with which to carry the war into Ge | many had been ordered for the air ser- | vice” before last June 20, and 1: aircraft production, made public to- day. The report, signed by Acting Director Homer, contained no recom- mendation: Actual orders for fishting ced in the United States up to June 30 totalled 12,500 and deliveries | totalled 529 De Haviland and 24 Bris- | tols, all day bombers. In addition 500 | Handley-Page and 1,000 Caproni nisht | bombers were on order and 1,000 C. -5 pursuit monoplanes. The De iland orders totalled 8,000 and the Bristol contracts 2 000. Lngine orders for service planes to- talled 30,500 and deliveries 2,392. More than 100,000 machine guns of various types also and 40,000 had been delivered. The enormous size of the air pro- gram is further shown in the spruce and fir shipments, a total of 65,000,000 feet of spruce and 25,000,000 feet of fir having been delivered for aero- plane construction during the period from May 24, 1917, to June 30, 1918, which the report covers. Director Potter shows that available appropriations for the air service for that period totalled $682,646,667, of which actual cash expenditures of $208,410,000 had been made on mate- rial and $164 893,494 on buildings and flyng fields. TAGEBLA ATTACHES DENIED NEW TRIAL Philadelphia, Dec. - 9.—Two ' editors and three momhers of tha business German language morning newspaper, recently convicted of violating the es- plonage act, were today refused a new trial in the federal districz court. The men were convicted on charges of hav- ing published articles and distorted news despatcies inimical 1o the Unit- ed States in time of war. They will be sentenced Jater. The defendants are Touls Werner, ediforin-chief; Dr, Martin Darkow, managing editcr; Feter Scimefer, pres- idmt; Paul Vogel, secvetury, and Herman Lemle, business manager. POLISH AND AMERICAN ' TROOPS TO OCCUPY POSEN Amsterdam, Dec. 9.-Polish-Amerl- can dlvisions, according to a well in- formed source, says the Warsaw cor- respondent of the Weser Zeituns, have embarked at Havre for Danzig, in West Prussia, with the intention of oceupying the provinces of Posen and Silesia. The headquarters of Polish-American troops, according to this Information, will be at the town ot Posen. 5 100,000 COTTON SPINNERS ON STRIKE IN ENGLAND Manchester, Dec, 9.—The strike of 100,000 cotto.nspinners for an increase of 40 per cent. in current wages is in full swing in southeast Lancaster. Only Washington, Dec. ).—More than a| had been delivered, according to the| first annual report of the bureau of | reraff'| had been contracted for| staff of the Philadelphia Tageblatt, a | the | Commercial Pacific official stated to- night that they expected Mr. Burleson to make voluptary answer to the case. If he does not, they declared, the: will serve him by publlcation, as fa the case of the Commercial Cable com- pany. No.orders had Dbeen received from the postmaster general, they- stated «intl the company was continuing and planning to continue its business. as though jts lies had not been seized. George Creel. chairman of the com- mittee on public information. who is to attend the peace conference in Paris. will receive the same treatment accorded -any newsDaper or pre as Commercial, company stated. NON-INFLAMMABLE GAS FOR USE IN BALLROOMS Washington, Dec Y.--Diccovery of inert “wom-inflam gas de- n ballorooms, dirigi- craft, was ment axp; Leing male prodict the use of th termad ditures now the arm: partment 39intly n. Th new ron. with de- ele- will hae been usel to inflatac the The gas from whi tained comes from well a , Texas. owned by the Tons Star Gas Company, the statement sa‘d, and a ten inch nipe line, to cost $1.030,000. is heing laid for a distanes of-94 miles trom the weils to a plant at Fort Worth. where the £as will be com- pressed into cvlinfers for chipment to the balloon fields. High proof gasoline is nhained in a ratio of abou: five gallons per one thousand cubic feet of it was nd after the one per cent. of is removed, by asreement with - tar Compan remainder of the gas is turned into the city mains of TFort Worth The department est plant at North For Wort! by the navy burean ¥ x docks, and which wil .cost $800,000, will be completed by next Arril 1. NINE U. S. MINE LAYERS TO START HOMEWARD DEC. 15 London, Dec. 9.—Nine United States mine layers, which planted 75 per cent. of the North sea mine barrage, will leave Portland homeward bound prob- ably on Dec. 15, with the expectation of arriving in the United States Dec. 28. They include four former vessels of the Morgan line fleet and two of the Old Dominion line. The flagship of the mine layers js the U. S. S. San Francisco, It is expected that all the vessels will be refitted as quickly as possible to be used in taking troops home. The repalr ship Black Hawk has left Inverness. BILL DESIGNED TO CREATE NATIONAL RAILWAY SYSTEM Washington, Dec. §.—Representative of New Jersey, republican, today in- troduced a Dbill deslgned to create a national rallway system under federal corporation and chartef, ' Participa- tion by the rallroads would be volun- | tary under the bill, which provides for a board of directors on which the government, the stockholders and em- employes would be represented, Gov- ernment financing of the preject is not contemplated. PROPOSED “MOONEY” STRIKES HAVE BEEN CALLED OFF Ban Franolsco, Dec, 0.—Strikes plan- ned throughout the country today as & protest against the conviotion and fur- a few firms have conceded the men's terms, Fully fifty million spindlos are idle. As hte stock of Yarns is low the weaving sheds soon wiil have to close, throwing out of employment an addi- tlonal 220.000 persana. ther incarceratign of Thomas _J. Mooney have all besn ealled oft until & mpectal lahor congress ocem mest in Chicago on Jan, 14. to 1 eensider al phases of the case, the Internatisnal Waskane' Pafansa lasgua AnneUREES, sociation correspondent, officers of the | fre . X the peace confe: Fifth ghting in C tain order. troopship Line offi reach Boston John H. Von ano| walk. who had about 50 years, convene in Ph land religious throughout the Wool now hel | | auction. E. W. BILSS C! Was! | the Iyn, W, ¥ Tiis containing fected by the permanent, wit by the supreme instance of ment. made n its intention to of construction pany, British m: ficiency and £ claimed by the MEDIATION bassador to Jo States in the m Ariea question, Chile for many Argentine diplo: |and Chile to States, conjoint! Foe! when his dutles respense te A New Yerk an dem of the ality! Condensed Telegrams Dr. Pierre Roux, director of ' years, will retire. Eighteen new cases of influenza were reported at Waterbury yestdrday in the influenza flareup. Destroyer Baliard is seventh of its class constructed at the Victory plant ‘of Squantum, near Quincy, Mass. Major General Williams, chief ordnance, in his: annual report, the arsenal at Waterviiet, N. ¥ New Jersey and Pennsylva tion Co. received -permission -by the Public Utility Commission to increase | the record-breaking sum paid to far- mers of the country in the month of | November for live stock used for meat | Application to iron and steel articles was filed with| the Interstate Commerce Commission the Pennsylvania Railroad. its maganese plant at Great Falls. Steel leaders believe government relinquish control soon. Shipping Board removed fons on accepting domestic ship con- Grain movement during tHe States collier Cyclops was at and at a British port was announced by the Navy Department as falge: Officials in Washington b price of clothing and food will be cut | President Wilson accepted the resig- nation of Director-General Schwab of Germany by the Allied armies in the offence just ended. Philadelphia for celebration of p and the erection of a. monument obelisk at a new parkwah. Final campaign statement of the Re- | publican National Committee expenditures of $794,000, or Traffic on railrfoads meeting and Premier Clemenceau may. president of the French delegation to James O'Neill, the veteran zctor, I recovering at his hotel in New York| ainful bruises he suffered when | {be was run down by an autemobile ment will be disposed of from cept for the United States, torpedoes rtain_improven aval offica: ments of the desire of MARSHAL FOCH VISIT UNITED S8TATES New York, Dec, 9.—That may_visit the e of Paris. for many of says is guns up te 18-inch Trac- 7 cents in each of the dollars’ an hour is. increase rates on per Mining Co. closed week considerably. the missing United Kiel ve the Fleet Corporation and thanked him very cordially by wire-| deral Food Board an- cre than 137,500 acres were recovered from are being made or shows $23, pts. {13 restrict- | d 50 “Wae T GEATY Cost of Living. 2w York, Dec. 3.—A moderate re- duction in the scaie of ~mutmum prices for steel, besinninz on Jan- uary 1, is favored by the general! committee’ on steel and steel products {of the rican Iron amd Steel In- stitute swvhich meets with the war in- | dustries board on Wednesday. TS Was _announced by Elbert H. Gary chairman of the commiites, at 2 mect ing here of steel manufaciurers today with the recommendation that the question be referred to the committee with power which was done. Mr. Gary opposed anv eflort to re- ice wage scales at vresent, declar |ing - ¢hat while labo receivin: {higher compensation than cver bef {the rates are no higher = than are | “proper and just” in view of the cost of Tiving, i eral prices that are Gary said, would he th simultaneous reductinns {rection” but this, Le doclared, would ba -impractical. He urged therefors, thot the stecl industry, as the “barometer of trade,” begin reductions in prics cost of sacrifice, = Such ceclared, would T in pric: tions by persons buying ste cn down the Iin:" unul a stable bus- iness basis was reach “If the workmen are treated fairly and liberally,” he said, “they will stand and contend for fair trcatment of the employer. ‘You have a chance 2 valuable toward sustaiuin | business equilibrium =I {he country While some might suffer los<cs at present, perhaps it woall prevent to o Juarez, bound from o Manila, foundered in Seven lives were lost. cured meat shipments for the past weel 35000 pounds. runping east and Chicago reported governing transportation car barn of the Con necticut Company was destroyed by act as rence, > is avenue. ologne between repub- tican revolutionists and imperial ad- herents has led to the speedy pateh of British troops there 10 main- | des- Joseph Bowes, aged 74, for a quar-| | ter of a century more for the Equitable Lile ance Society, died at Baltimore. Wircless messages flashed from the | Star at, Balti Assur- manager. ic to White d the steamer would t noon Wednesday Hegermann Linden- crone, former Danish minister to Par: and Berlin, is dead. Miss Annie E. Smith, ‘67, of Nor- heen bed-ridden for killed herself by using a bread knife to sever arteries in her! icipal debt of Portland, Me., | NEW. Y i 000, requiring annual interest puyments of $147,045. The American Jewish congress will iladelphia Dec. 15 to consider means of obtaining political | centing freedom world, ld by the war depart- at public for Jews 0. RESTRAINED FROM MAKING TORPEDOES ngton, Dec. tained by the government restraining tions ob- Company of Brool manufacturing e: ents _per cre made modifications, today court. h The proceeiings were brought at the the which alleged that d navy deparament, spie an agree- and = 1905 contracts sperifying that cortain im- provements were not to the company in 1913 gave he divulged. notice of communicate methods and opération of the existing type fo Whitehead and Com- anufacture: The Bliss company conten-ied the ef- value of not due to the torpedoes the jmdrovements government and that these features had been used prior to the time the navy depa ¢d they had been perfected. ent claim- PERU ACCEPTS PROFFERED IN CHILE DISPUTE Lima, Peru, Dec. 9.—It is announced that the eruvian government accepts the proffered mediation of the United States and Argentina in the settlement of the dispute with Chile, sequence the boycott against Chilean vessels has been ended. As & con- President Irigoyen, having consented at the instance of the American am- | fn_with the United ediation of the Tacna- which has been & source of contenflon between Peru and years, instructed the matic agents {n Peru inform those. govern- the United ly with Argentina, to bring about a seitlement. MAY Marshal United Btates permit was Indleated by a cablegram recelved here today by Mayor Hylan from the marshal in recent essage In whieh the mayer invited him teo vislt |’ offered him “the free- shipping _ facilities, | Business in South reported smaller. Bernard M. Baruch and Henry P.|gation of the department of justice, Davison, chairman of the Red Cro: will go overseas to determine wh: raw materials the United States will{ and German propaganda. have to furnish in the reconstruction | days Mr. Bielaski had bared the confi- and rehabilitation of Europe. greater losses in the f We jcould be leaders in a movement oul- culated methodically to rzadjust gon- ] ¢itions in an orderly way. We might i STEELASTHE“BAROWETER OF INDUSTR stitute Recommends a Moderate Reduction in Maximum Prices of Steel With a View of Leading to a Resumption of Normal Prices in Other Industries—Is Opposed to Any Effort to Reduce Wage Scales in View of the High have some influence on steadying bus- workmen are more interested in question than uny constitutes ' the urz cost of production, from the raw m: e and i i nierits, ciates and - valuable work. as someiimes crs of this cofintry are desirous controlling the methods of production or distribution. They know - they Perhaps the mo could not be successful in the experi- of reducing “the prasent ment.” _ Mr, Gary predicted thet, if business and vears ; Prosperous and successtul in our his- tory. broadminded, liberal and bhig in every way, and 1 appeal to you at this time Chairman Elbert H. Gary, of the General Committee on Steel the American Iron and Steel In-" ness .generally, and remember. the other, for labar part of the © al down to fih: finished product use by the consunier. ¢ “Our employes must continie ‘o he jtreated liberally with respect to thelr compensafion and geneinl dvelfure. e will continue to show them that is our inention to consider their anl to treat thcn us OsSo- A3 “There °s 10 und ¢ believ 4 Ne Vo ke of S fair to its emploves, ity customers its competitors, the next five 1l be the most progressive, he iron and steel men have been with confidence" he ‘declared. ' Full responsibility in the matter of prices soon will rest on the_individ- val manufacturers again, Judge Gary aid. He asserted that In a short time nerhaps sooner than we now sup- pese,” the war industries board will be relieved and price fixing discontin- ued. Judge Gary paid a warm tribute to the work of the war industries board, asserting that its members have shown from the start of their activi- ties “great ability, careful study nd deliveration, unusual patience = and above all a disposition to be fair and, considerate.” | GERMAN PROPAGANDA IN U. 8. COST $7,500000 Washington, Dec. 9.—A Bruce Biel- askl, chief of the bureau of investi- Completed his testimory before (he | senate committee investigating brewers Tor three | ential files of the department to show | inspection, | the vam efforts of former Ambassador | de of | Von Bernstorff and other agents of the | national grain by the railroads were announced | Kaiser to infiuence publi by the Railroad Administration. ent in | | America In favor of German: Seven and one-half million | Was the cost to Germany of the propa- | | zanda campaign in the United States, | | Mr..'Bielaski said, the sum coming from the total fund of $27,8%0 000 held by the embassy in Washington. Part| of the money went fbr the purchase of newspzpers and the printing and aistributing of literature and part of | it was sent to Germ: consuls over the | country. i Mr. Bielaski’s téstimony does not | conclude the committee's inquiry into | [ the activity of the German represent- atives. It was announced tonight that !,‘\h‘red Becker, assistant dis et attor- | ney of New York. who conducted an | investi; of German propazanda. and Francis Garvin, chief of the bu- reau of investigetion of the alien| | property custodian's office, will be ex- | amined later. ‘omorrow the commit- { tee v hear Prof. Albert Bushnell | { Hart of Harvard university, whose| | name was in the “important list of i names” in the ‘depariment’s files of | | men who were actively G | before the United States entered the H s asked for permission i to testify and after that will adjourn | for several days. on | ORK WELCCMED | 2,200 WOUNDED SOLDIERS | New York, Dec. 9.—New York v comed home today more than wounded American so.dier ! virtually” every state in the | | Union. The men came on three ships the United States transport Sierra, | swhioh carried about 1,560 orcers and | men; the United States hospital ship Comfort, which carrie and the French liner Chicago, carried 260, All of tho ships we: { ed by crowds which lined the water- front and clustered on housetops. Water craft in the harbor tied down ! their whistles to augment the wel coming din, and fire boats shot streams of water high into the -air, ile a_police patrol boat, bearing yor Hylan's welcoming committee, circled about, radiographing greet ings. Two military bands played patriotic airs as the steamers came to dock. Red Cross workers rushel abos¢ to crve sandwiches, coffee, nokes” to the returniny The Comfort had on hoai stretcher cases” and one death, that of a Minnesota private, occurred dur- ing the voyage. i lany of the men ‘who arrived to- day are members of the Rainbow di~ vision and marines who had been wounded in the American thrust at Chateau Thierry warmiy cheer- ( POPE AN ADVOCATE OF A LEAGUE OF NATIONS New York, Dec. 3.—Pope Denedict is an advocate of a league of nations so constructed as to prevent the pos- sibility of futyre wars, Monsignor Si- gourney Fay declared herc tonight in an address before the League for Po- litical Education, outlining the fea- tures of a recent conservation he had with the pontiff. Monsiguor Iay re- cently returned from Europe, whithe# he had gone as representative of Car- dinal Gibbons on a million with the American Red Cross. The pope, Monsignor Juay said, fa- i vors the creation by tfie League of Nations of a court of international eppeals, with coercive power to en- | force its decision:, and faveors di armament of nations to such an ex- tent that none would dare to siart a war. MEDALS FOR MASSACHUSETTS " SBOLDIERS AND SAILORS Boston, Dee. 9.—A bill which would provida for tha presentation cf a state madal of honar to every Missachuseltd! solilier and saflor who =eived in the wiar against Germany apd for a certifi- cate of honor to the Bay State faml- l1es who,_lost men fn tha confliet was flied in the scmate lodey by Senator- elect Arthur L. Nason of “faverhiil. ‘The atate’ yrosented - tertificate: of merit to every soldier who tcrved at ! the Mexican border, { court before j the pen: TRIAL OF CONGRESSMAN- - ELECT* BERGER BEGINS Chicago, Dec. 9—Victor L. Berger, congressman-elect from Milwaukee, with four co-defendants, was placed ou trial today in the federal dWeriet o e is on a charge of violaiing onage act. A plea of not guilty was entered by Attorney Seymour Stedman for all the ndants, Berzer, Adolph Germer, ceretary of ocialist par- Irwin an Epis- mun, William S. Kruse Louis Engdahl, socialist prop- agandist Before ihe noon recess District At- torney Charles I°. Clyne haa complet- cd_examination of twelve veniremen nd- tenderad the pancl to the defense, Mr. Clvne defined tiie offense charged insi the defendants as conspiracy iolation of the es chstructing recrn in_the United Staje Each venire ¥ 1tor whether in his opinion any- ould -be permitted under the guise [of free speech to vielate the Jaws of the country and each mar re= rlied “No. Counsel for the defense questioned eniremen at greater length, in- v as to attitude toward and conscieritious chjectors. adjourned the defense had exerc Vo . peremptory chal- Icnzes, two challenzes for cause and the court had dismissed two venire- men, ty qui soc When sed LLOYD GECRGE APPEALS FOR VOTES OF WOMEN London, Dec, 9—Premier Lioyd icorge at a greaf meetinz in Albert Hall today made an apneal for the votes of the women. The meeting was atiended exclusively by women, it Leing unique in that an: other ways. The guard of honor up of membe: formed women The premier pointed o. . tween six million and seven million women would have a_direct influenca jon the legislation of the future, which | would largely - depend on how they voted. Ny “If you suspect any man of going: to the peace conference with war in aid the premier, —“vote. The coming peace must it if not impos:¥ble. must. pay her they ‘are, the ¢ they should be in people must,” the penalty. It peace, it will not be ty more the re Lunished. The Ger be made to b an ea: ust peac AGGREGATE RESOURCES OF 28,000 BANKS, $40,210,000,000 Washington, Dec. 9.—Azeregate Tes sources of the 28,000 banks in the - United States, state and naf'onal, last vne 30 amounted to $10,216,v00,00, of which $2 020000 was credited to the 21,175 state, savings and private banks ‘and trust companies and $17, * 829,000,000 to the 7,705 national banks. This shown today by a report of Comptroller of the € ency Willilams, Deposits of the state banks amount- 1o $18,567,000,000 and loans to $12+ 126,000,000, showinz an increase of five per cent. in deposits over the regord of the vean previous and of 6.5 per cent. in loans, . National banks showed 14,021,000,000 deposits, an increase of 9.5 per cent. and $9.620,000.000 in loans, an increase of 9.1 per cent. All banks state and national, had %:52,589,000,000 * deposits and $22,046,- 00,000 loans. MEN WHO WERE IN GERMAN PRISON CAMPS Washington. Bec. §.—Nares of four officers and 12 ted men who have been reportel prisomers of war in Germany wer: wade pub.ic_today by the war depart g:>nt. The officers are: Camp Karls Licuzenants WVak- ter G. Seherrer, ter \W.. Roy:a, Hollywool Willfam_ S.. Cous Darmstadt Hos Licutenant Kenneth Gloversville, ¥. Y. The_ enlisted men_includ Camp Rastaat: Harry I". Lesasey, Worcester, Mass. S Eamp Saarhrucken: Motti, Malden, Mass. Y Camp Enknown: David L. Brewer, Chiltonville, Mass.; Louis P. Chagnon, Frenchville, Maine; Rlwin Young: Colebrook, N. H. 3 ko Camp Limburz: Manu:l Rodriquez, James F. Stegrns, Flumbert Sca: Fall River, Mas Hallowell, Mate. i